One of the victims held captive and abused during a decade of horror at the
hands of the rapist Ariel Castro yesterday faced him across a courtroom and
told him: “I spent 11 years in hell, now your hell is just beginning.”

Michelle Knight, who was raped, chained up and held prisoner inside 2207
Seymour Avenue, sat within feet of the man who lured her into his home and
tormented her during 2,226 days of captivity.

Ms Knight, now 32, said her son was only 2¼ years old when she was abducted in
2002. Occasionally dabbing her eyes with a